News 4TU.AMI

The purpose of the annual 4TU.AMI Community Event is to bring together members of the five partner applied mathematics institutes (AMI) in order to get to know colleagues and catch up with old ones, explore common research or teaching interests, invite collaboration, and receive updates on current 4TU.AMI funded projects, including the so-called Strategic Research Initiatives or SRIs.

The top-3 of Dutch pupils who participated in the MATH+ Advent Calender 2024 are Casper Heimel (Utrechts Stedelijk Gymnasium), Arjen van der Schee (Van Lodenstein College, Amersfoort) and Jouke Klumpers (Stanislascollege Westplantsoen, Delft).

Around two years ago, 4TU.AMI started to actively investigate ways to collaborate with the applied mathematics groups of the Bernoulli Institute of the University of Groningen ((UG). We are happy to announce that this has led to the University of Groningen now joining 4TU.AMI as a formal member, alongside Delft, Eindhoven, Twente and Wageningen.

Report of the first AMI Education Day, held in Utrecht on 18 May 2025. This event is a continuation of the very successful Inter TU Study Days, an annual 4TU.AMI event which ran from 2013 to 2019.

We are pleased to welcome Marieke Kranenburg to the 4TU.AMI Bureau. Marieke has recently joined as a second project manager, working alongside Ellen van den Bos to support and coordinate our 4TU.AMI activities.

On 1 January 2025, the new 4TU.AMI Strategic Research Initiative (SRI) 'Real-World-Inspired Sequential Decision-Making' was launched. We interviewed the project leaders Anne Zander and Janusz Meylahn (both UT).

On March 7th, the UT hosted a workshop for high school teachers in mathematics and computer science on artificial intelligence (AI) in medical imaging. Similar educational material for high-school teachers and students is being developed.

Registration for the 4TU.AMI Education Day on 19 May 2025 is now open. See this page for more details, including the program of the day. We are looking forward to seeing you in Utrecht soon!

Since September 1, 2024, Nicos Starreveld has been appointed as the national Communications, Outreach, and PR Officer for Platform Wiskunde Nederland (PWN). In this role, Nicos has been instrumental in supporting the 4TU.AMI bureau and the 4TU.AMI Strategic Research Initiatives (SRIs) with communication and outreach strategies. He is also fostering collaboration between 4TU.AMI and PWN to initiate joint activities that will benefit the broader mathematics community in the Netherlands.

Join us for our annual summer event on Friday 27 June 2025 in Wageningen.

Each year, thousands of people compete in the MATH+ Advent Calendar, a digital mathematics competition organised in December by the Berlin Mathematics Research Center MATH+ in collaboration with 4TU.AMI.

In a vibrant and forward-looking conversation, Stella Kapodistria (TU/e), the newly appointed scientific director of 4TU.AMI, and her predecessor Johann Hurink (UT) shared insights into the transition of leadership within the institute. The discussion revealed a shared commitment to maintaining the institute's strong foundation while pushing forward into new territories. The atmosphere was charged with energy as both leaders expressed a unified vision for the future of 4TU.AMI.

Report of the 4TU.AMI summer event that took place at the University of Twente on 7 June 2024.

One of the two current Strategic Research Initiatives (SRIs) of the 4TU.Applied Mathematics Institute is called 'Bridging Numerical Analysis and Machine Learning'. Co-founder Dr. Alexander Heinlein is busy organising the SRI’s next workshop, taking place in Delft on 25 and 26 April. His aim: create a solid foundation for Dutch initiatives in the field of scientific machine learning.

Join us during our summer event on Friday 7 June on the campus of the University of Twente.